Arthur Miller (1) (1915–2005)
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The son of a well-to-do New York Jewish family, Miller graduated from high school and then went to work in a warehouse. He was born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City. His plays have been called "political," but he considers the areas of literature and politics to be quite separate and näytä lisää has said, "The only sure and valid aim---speaking of art as a weapon---is the humanizing of man." The recurring theme of all his plays is the relationship between a man's identity and the image that society demands of him. After two years, he entered the University of Michigan, where he soon started writing plays. All My Sons (1947), a Broadway success that won the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1947, tells the story of a son, home from the war, who learns that his brother's death was due to defective airplane parts turned out by their profiteering father. Death of a Salesman (1949), Miller's experimental yet classical American tragedy, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the New York Drama Critics Circle Award in 1949. It is a poignant statement of a man facing himself and his failure. In The Crucible (1953), a play about bigotry in the Salem witchcraft trials of 1692, Miller brings into focus the social tragedy of a society gone mad, as well as the agony of a heroic individual. The play was generally considered to be a comment on the McCarthyism of its time. Miller himself appeared before the Congressional Un-American Activities Committee and steadfastly refused to involve his friends and associates when questioned about them. His screenplay for The Misfits (1961), from his short story, was written for his second wife, actress Marilyn Monroe (see Vol. 3); After the Fall (1964) has clear autobiographical overtones and involves the story of this ill-fated marriage as well as further dealing with Miller's experiences with McCarthyism. In the one-act Incident at Vichy (1964), a group of men are picked off the streets one morning during the Nazi occupation of France. The Price (1968) is a psychological drama concerning two brothers, one a police officer, one a wealthy surgeon, whose long-standing conflict is explored over the disposal of their father's furniture. The Creation of the World and Other Business (1973) is a retelling of the story of Genesis, attempted as a comedy. The American Clock (1980) explores the impact of the Depression on the nation and its individual citizens. Among Miller's most recent works is Danger: Memory! (1987), a study of two elderly friends. During the 1980s, almost all of Miller's plays were given major British revivals, and the playwright's work has been more popular in Britain than in the United States of late. Miller died of heart failure after a battle against cancer, pneumonia and congestive heart disease at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. He was 89 years old. (Bowker Author Biography) Arthur Miller, American playwright, was born on October 17, 1915, in New York City. He earned an AB from the University of Michigan and began to write plays while still a student. He won the first of his many awards, the Avery Hopwood Prize of the University of Michigan, for his first play, Honors at Dawn. This was followed by many other award-winning plays. One of the best-known of these, Death of a Salesman, won the Pulitzer Prize in Drama in 1949 as well as a Drama Critics Circle Award; it continues to be one of the most frequently performed and adapted plays of this century. Some of his other titles include The Crucible, A View From the Bridge, The Misfits, After the Fall, and Vichy. Miller also wrote several travel pieces, including In Russia and Chinese Encounters (both in collaboration with his third wife, Ingeborg Morath); a novel, Focus; and the autobiography, Timebends: A Life. Arthur Miller was married to Mary Grace Slattery in 1940. They had two children and were divorced in 1952. In 1956, he married actress Marilyn Monroe and they divorced in 1961. He married Morath in 1962 and they have two children together. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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Miller Plays 1: All My Sons / Death of a Salesman / The Crucible / A Memory of Two Mondays / A View from the Bridge (1988) 108 kappaletta
Eight Plays: All My Sons / Death of a Salesman / The Crucible; A Memory of Two Mondays; A View from the Bridge / After… (1981) 45 kappaletta
All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from the Bridge, After the Fall (1995) 25 kappaletta
Miller Plays 2: The Misfits / After the Fall / Incident at Vichy / The Price / The Creation of the World and Other… (1988) 20 kappaletta
Teatro 12 kappaletta
The Collected Plays of Arthur Miller. Vol. 2 8 kappaletta
Miller Plays 4: Golden Years / The Man Who Had All the Luck / I Can't Remember Anything / Clara (1994) 7 kappaletta
Miller Plays 6: Broken Glass; Mr Peter's Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture (World Classics):… (2009) 7 kappaletta
Todos Eran Mis Hijos & Despues De La Caida / All My Sons & After the Fall (Gran Teatro) (Spanish Edition) (1995) 6 kappaletta
Na de zondeval ; Incident in Vichy 4 kappaletta
Miller Plays 5: Last Yankee / The Ride Down Mount Morgan / Almost Everybody Wins (1995) 4 kappaletta
Death of a Salesman, etc 3 kappaletta
A view from the bridge : an opera in two acts ; libretto by Arnold Weinstein and Arthur Miller (2002) 3 kappaletta
The crucible: Play and study notes 2 kappaletta
All My Sons, Vienna's English Theatre 2 kappaletta
The Pussycat and the Expert Plumber Who Was a Man 2 kappaletta
Death Of A Salesman - Act 1 & 2 1 kappale
Dramak 1 kappale
The Crucible - Spoken Arts 1 kappale
Rare Arthur Miller DEATH OF A SALESMAN First UK Edition signed 1st Edition -Cresset Press (1949) 1 kappale
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By Arthur Miller Las Brujas De Salem, El Crisol / The Salem Witches,The Crucible (Spanish Edition) (Tra) [Paperback] (1653) 1 kappale
Situation Normal 1 kappale
Five Plays by Arthur Miller 1 kappale
Collected plays of Arthur Miller 1 kappale
TDR #177 1 kappale
The Death of a Salesman 1 kappale
Miller Arthur 1 kappale
SCRIPT: The Crucible 1 kappale
The Crucible - Hexenjagd von Arthur Miller: Textanalyse und Interpretation mit ausführlicher Inhaltsangabe und… (2013) 1 kappale
Miller Plays 1: All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A Memory of Two Mondays, A View from the Bridge (World… (2009) 1 kappale
Arthur Miller's Collected Plays - The Franklin Library - Allan Mardon Illustrations (1981) 1 kappale
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Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama (1995) — Avustaja, eräät painokset — 921 kappaletta
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Wrestling with Zion: Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (2003) — Avustaja — 71 kappaletta
Genesis as It Is Written: Contemporary Writers on Our First Stories (1996) — Avustaja — 62 kappaletta
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Lapham's Quarterly - Lines of Work: Volume IV, Number 2, Spring 2011 (2011) — Avustaja — 29 kappaletta
Antaeus No. 73/74, Spring 1994 - Who’s Writing This: Notations on the Authorial I {magazine} (1994) — Avustaja — 5 kappaletta
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 4 — Avustaja — 4 kappaletta
All My Sons [1987 TV movie] — Original play — 2 kappaletta
After the Fall [1974 TV movie] — Original play — 1 kappale
32 Współczesne Opowiadania Amerykańskie - Tom I — Avustaja — 1 kappale
50 Best Plays of the American Theatre, Volume 3 — Avustaja — 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Virallinen nimi
- Miller, Arthur Asher
- Syntymäaika
- 1915-10-17
- Kuolinaika
- 2005-02-10
- Hautapaikka
- Great Oak Cemetery, Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- New York, New York, USA
- Kuolinpaikka
- Roxbury, Connecticut, USA
- Asuinpaikat
- New York, New York, USA
Roxbury, Connecticut, USA - Koulutus
- University of Michigan (BA | English | 1938)
- Ammatit
- playwright
novelist
essayist
autobiographer
short-story writer - Suhteet
- Monroe, Marilyn (spouse|divorced)
Morath, Inge (spouse)
Miller, Rebecca (daughter) - Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- National Book Award, Medal of Distinguished Contribution to American Letters (2001)
Laura Pels Foundation Awards for Drama (1998)
Jerusalem Prize (2003)
National Medal of Arts (1993)
Kennedy Center Honors (1984)
Premio Príncipe de Asturias ( [2002]) (näytä kaikki 8)
Jefferson Lecture (2001)
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature ∙ 1958)
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I can't decide if I didn't like this play cause the story is frustrating or cause the play is dumb. Either way I didn't like it, so I guess it doesn't really matter why
Things really get bogged down in the middle third of the book, Miller is just repeating himself endlessly about getting the actors to "be real". The choice was either to fail to finish reading the book, or just skip pages until it got to the previews and opening night. I chose the later, for both closure and out of curiosity, and I'm glad I did.
This is the second time I've read this and this time I read it in 2 days. An important work about the American dream, capitalism, and the curses we unknowingly pass onto our children.
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I have found that I am not a fan of reading plays.